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Another goblin seige at DaubedDiamonds. Pull Level command issued. DwarfA in security room goes On Break, then Sleep. DwarfB in security room goes Sleep, then Eat. Goblins get in. Goblins slaughter 60 dwarves in SubFort#1. Goblins are removed. SubFort#1 goes berserk and kills another 30 dwarves. SubFort#2 goes berserk. 20 more dwarfs die. A second, larger seige arrives. The rest of SubFort#1 is murdered. I try to pull survivors from SubFort#2 into the security room. All the miasma and death moves into the security room. Migrants arrive and see a StarkRavingMad person and miasma fuming out the entrance ramp. Migrants path fort and die.Three remaining dwarves in SubFort#2: a child, a mayor who "Counduct Meeting", and a militia commander who "Attend Meeting". Complete fort gridlock for three months. More migrants arrive. Migrants manage to establish base in SubFort#2. A goblin commander was caught in a cage, so his squad can't leave the map. Can't get migrants until they leave. Months of buildup. Attack goblin squad with 10 untrained dwarves with 2 war hammers, a pick, and 7 training axes. The end.

My conclusion

DaubedDiamonds has reached 130 dwarfs (30 children), but still hasn't located a vampire yet.
It has two artifact millstones, a dog bone throne, a turkeysploion, a goosesplosion, and a thriving metal industry.
But all I really want is just a vampire.

It also has a floodhall, and lots of dead babies. I never guessed that aquifer powered ramps were so good at removing infants.

My test fort DaubedDiamonds has almost completed its drowning trap.
I'm testing to make sure I fixed the vampire bug (Alcohol Dependency / NO_DRINK fix found here and here)
And I want to be lazy, so I'll use a drowning trap to survive until a vampire test-subject arrives.

Anyway, I've locked a husband & wife into the 19X9 lever-control room. Their bedroom has a copper chest and copper food barrel (the husband likes copper). It's located on top of an aquifer so they have infinite water until their plump helmets bloom. Chalk statues, fish, blocks, pots and some thread too. I would have given them pigtails too, but I was hurried to finish fast because I needed flood my underground cistern and move my farms deeper.

Good find. I guess blood really is irresistable to a vampire.

Pathing and a Vampire

Surface full of zombies, and one dwarf managed to make it to the front gate.
I thought he survived because of the screwy pathing ... For some reason I blanked out on the word vampire
I rush to get him in (don't remember why, I already had 30+ dwarves and thriving industry)
I quickly open the bunny pen, but another zombie went in there first...

So the fort could no longer be protected by my almighty buns, and all was lost.

P.S. I guess I was desperate to let the guy in, because of all the fortress deaths.
The loss of some O7 dwarves, plus a painchild, plus two militia all took a toll on on my psyche. That must've been why I tried to let the vamp in.
Lesson learned: Compassion is a liability in the end of days. Should probably write "Abandon all hope ye who enter" on the doorway as a reminder

Is there a trick to embarking in Evil areas?

The trick is to embark, die, and try again.
You keep trying and dying, but it's a reanimating biome so it's okay.
Eventually, you stop dying and have somehow stabilized.
But then you realize that you've become one of them.

I sent my obsidian farm to nega-space.
I was very, very, very wrong about the pathing not being messed up.

Do you get job cancellations at workshops?
Maybe build a masons shop, forbid all other stone, and see if they can use the obsidian to make blocks.

In my game, I was getting "could not find path" when collect webs,
even though webs were like 5 squares from the workshop.

You could try carving out some circular halls, and see which paths the dwarves like to take.